- Noam Chomsky, the political theorist and leftwing guru,
yesterday gave his reluctant endorsement to the Democratic party's presidential
contender, John Kerry, calling him "Bush-lite", but a "fraction"
better than his rival.
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- Professor Chomsky - a linguist at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology as well as a renowned chronicler of American foreign policy
- said there were "small differences" between Senator Kerry and
the Republican president. But, in an interview on the Guardian's politics
website, he added that those small differences "can translate into
large outcomes".
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- He describes the choice facing US voters in November
as "the choice between two factions of the business party". But
the Bush administration was so "cruel and savage", it was important
to replace it.
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- He said: "Kerry is sometimes described as 'Bush-lite',
which is not inaccurate. But despite the limited differences both domestically
and internationally, there are differences. In a system of immense power,
small differences can translate into large outcomes."
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- He reserved his especial venom for the Bush administration's
plans for the health sector: "The people around Bush are deeply committed
to dismantling the achievements of popular struggle through the past century
no matter what the cost to the general population."
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- Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited
2004
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- http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1174017,00.html
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